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Some fall sports resume Feb. 1

Cross country, golf, tennis OK'd for competition; higher-risk sports must wait

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Post-Record file photos Washougal's Gabriel Dinnel powers through the mud during a 2018 cross country meet in Idaho. The 2020 fall high school sports season in Washington was postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Some low-risk, local high school sports, including cross country, are set to begin practice Feb. 1, 2021. (Post-Record file photo)

Camas and Washougal high school runners, golfers and tennis players will return to competition in February, but the rest of the traditional fall sports athletes will have to wait a bit longer to find out when their seasons will begin.

Greater St. Helens League athletic directors announced last week that their schools’ cross country, boys golf and boys tennis teams can start practices Feb. 1, with competition beginning the following week even if the Southwest Region remains in Phase 1 of the state’s “Healthy Washington” reopening plan.

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